Focus On Safety: Federal Assets Support States Facing Ike

The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working with its federal, state and local partners to keep people safe before, during and after Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas. President George W. Bush has issued pre-landfall disaster declarations in Texas and Louisiana that enables federal aid to supplement and support any of the immediate response efforts. Ike could also bring heavy winds and rain to Oklahoma, Arkansas and other states as it moves north over the weekend. Read More